Giving Birth By Surprise???

[goodferry]

I have a friend who is in her thirties and was trying for years to get pregnant with no success. She was overweight and started to get sick, or so she thought. She started retaining a lot of water and was in pain all the time, she continued to have what she thought was a period. She went to the doctor and THEY DID A PREGNANCY TEST which came back negative. Because she had tried for soooo long to get pregnant, they never thought to test again. They ran all sorts of tests on her, couldn't figure out what it was. Finally, as this poor woman was sure that she had kidney diseast, she found out she was eight months pregnant WITH TWINS. She delivered a week later and the babies are healthy and wonderful.
I never would have believed that this happened until I went through this experience with her.

 

[PaulaSue]

For me I would know. Everyone and their Mother would know I am preggo. I am kind of jealous of those who don't look preggo while 9 months. My GF was preggo and at her shower she looked bigger but not 8 months at ALL.

 

[figment52]

Well, I can only speak for myself of course but....HECK, NO!

I weighed 112 lbs when I got pregnant and weighed 160 lbs, 9 months later. If I hadn't been pregnant, I'd have been going to the doctor to see what dreadful disease I had.

Ok - here is your laugh for the night - when I first read this I thought it said you GAINED 112 lbs when you got pregnant and then 160 lbs 9 months later so my mind thought a total weight gain of 160 lbs in 18 months.

I'm sure you are glad I was wrong as well.

 

[lbgraves]

You actually can have your period when you are pregnant. I found this out after going to the doctor thinking that I was a couple weeks pregnant & when they did the sonogram there were stubs for the arms & legs. I sat up on the table & said OMG how big is that baby?!?!?! I was 10 weeks. I had been losing weight & not feeling right for a few weeks and we wanted to have another baby then but had no idea it had happened so quickly. I gain 40 pounds when pregnant so I would have known way before she was due.

 

[Becky2005]

Honestly, NO, *I* couldn't do that...HOWEVER....it happened in our family.

Our family is also the truth is stranger than fiction family. It was one of several bizarre things to happen in our family.

I really don't know if she was just pretending or if she honestly didn't know. My brother's girlfriend went into the hospital for what they *thought* was appendicitis - they were about to take x-rays and her water broke!

OOPS - Guess it's not appendicitis! The worst part was my poor brother - got a call saying "you're a dad" -- didn't have 9 months to get prepared for it or anything - just she had a baby! Talk about a very confused person - just picture a phone call from your girlfriend that you have no idea is pregnant, you know she went to ER thinking she had appendicitis and the call you get telling you what is really going on.

IF I had not actually *lived* this I would have no idea it was possible, however, just the week before she had the baby we were all out together and you could NOT tell she was pregnant - absolutely did not show whatsoever! NONE of us had a clue - my mom was livid though after she found out because she was freaked out that she could have gone into labor any second and here they were out doing stuff basically far away from home and definitely not in any position to deal with a laboring mom.

My nephew is now 22 (or 23 - I forget - I know bad aunt!!).

 

[disykat]

I had the same symptoms when I was pregnant that I often have. No periods, nausea, breast tenderness, fluttering in the abdomen - that really doesn't seem that unusual to me. I have often thought I was pregnant when I wasn't. It always took months for me to truly believe I wasn't because even when I'm actually pregnant - EPT's come out negative. If it wasn't for me gaining lots of weight and having blood tests done I could have been in the same boat. My first child rolled over and made his presence known, my second child didn't.

For me, my size was the indicator. I have a good friend though that was disappointed during her first pregnancy because she never got to wear the maternity clothes she bought. She never grew into them. Her labor pains were all in her back. If you had combined her symptoms and mine - it would've happened.

 

[BrinxFam]

Several years ago, a girl here in our town went through a full term pregnancy and delivered a little boy without knowing she was pregnant. No one else knew either. She went to the ER with severe back pain and came out of the hospital with a baby. I remember seeing her the day before the baby, while she was at work, and she just didn't look like she felt well but she definitely didn't look pregnant. She told some people that she didn't have any pregnancy signs but that she must have mistaken the baby moving as gas pains. So I guess it can happen. And, no, this girl is not a goody person. She is intelligent and has a good deal of common sense.

 

[mickeyfan2]

But wouldn't the lack of Aunt Flo be a reason to go to a Dr.?

 

[katerkat]

My friend knew she was pregnant because they were trying - but she continued to have light bleeding, the baby never moved, she barel gained weight and didn't look at all pregnant even at 9 months, and she never felt her contractions during labor. She was shocked when her doctor admitted her because she had contractions every 3 minutes. If she hadn't been trying for a baby, I don't know if it ever would have occured to her.

 

[BlueBayou]

I know somebody who did not get pregnancy confirmed until she was 27 weeks. She had been trying for years and had been told it was not going to happen without medical help. She was in her early 40s.

She did have symptoms but they were missed. She had a bloodclot in her leg after an airline flight and they started treating her for that. She was in her first trimester at the time. (but negative HPT) When she began to feel the baby move she was really worried that something was wrong. It took a couple of weeks to get into a doctor's office. When they finally realized she was pregnant there was very serious concern due to the medicine she was on for the bloodclot. But so far all the tests are looking great. They are so happy about their little miracle.

 

[catherine]

I know two women who had babies and did not know they were pregnant. The first one had her period all the way through and the second one, who gave birth last weekend had her peiod up until March. I saw the second lady a couple of weeks before she had her baby and you would have never have guessed that she was pregnant! She was riding her horse right up until the day she gave birth! The doctors said that she had really good muscle tone and that is why she had hardly any bump! She didn't suspect anything was wrong until her waters broke and she started having pain, an hour later she gave birth to a healthy baby girl!

 

[VSL]

Women who say they went to the bathroom and out popped a baby are lying. No way to go through a pregnancy (not to mention labor) and not know something's up.

And you would know this how, exactly?
Every pregnancy is different. My mother was six months gone before she knew about me. Also, some of these women obviously did think that 'something was up' but they didn't think that it was pregnancy.

Not every baby kicks. Not everyone gets sickness. Not everyone gains weight. Not everyone loses their periods entirely.

Also, is it not possible (at least in the case of those who have never previously given birth) that they mistook the labour pains as being stomach cramping and diarrhea pains?

Going through pregnancy and then giving birth with no knowledge of being pregnant is more common than people think. It's been happening since ancient times too - there are cases in Ancient Greece of women not knowing that they were pregnant until the baby was there!

 

[delilah]

I have actually delivered babies of women who denied all the way up to the time that they were placed in stirrups and presented with a newborn that they weren't pregnant. They were generally younger teenaged patients in very heavy denial.

The most extreme case of this was a young lady who was very petite--about 5ft tall and weighing less than a 100lbs, who delivered a normal sized term infant.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

My friend was 7 months at work was 7 months pregnant when she found out she was having her 2nd child. She is very slim and had hardly any weight gain. Plus she continued to bleed through the pregnancy, she only went to the doctors because she could feel the baby moving and thought something was wrong with her.

Another girl I used to work with found out she was pregnant the week before she had the baby. When she went into hospital to have her daughter she was wearing size 4 hipsters!!

Give me a break...size 4!! Some people have all the luck. I would not have been able to fit the size 4 hipsters waist around my wrist when I was pg.!

 

[DVC Sadie]

I can't understand how anyone can be pregnant and not know until they deliver. Being in total denial is one thing but being totally ...... is another.


You wouldn't believe how many babies I helped deliver in the ER from patients who said they did not know that they were pregnant. Most of them were in their teens and the youngest was 13. The parents were in more denial than the children who had given birth.




Edited for spelling, once again.